'...No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. i have done my best to make Nwoye grow into a man, but there is too much of his mother in him.'
The truth, which Okonkwo knows but cannot bring himself to state, is that Nwoye is what he is because there is in him too much of

The title of Achebe Things Fall Apart is taken from poem written by

The novel Thin gs Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was first published in